Demon Bear

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An unknown villain created the Demon Bear by demonically mutating William and Peg Lonestar.[1] The Demon Bear haunted the dreams of their daughter Danielle Moonstar, claiming he had killed her parents and would eventually come and kill her.[2]

Increasingly troubled by her dreams of the Demon Bear, Moonstar (then called Mirage) ran various Danger Room scenarios against bears, and then confronted the demon alone; he mauled her and severely damaged her spine.[3] The New Mutants rushed her to the Mid-County Medical Center. The Demon Bear infiltrated the hospital, transported the team to the Badlands, and turned nurse Sharon Friedlander and officer Tom Corsi into demonic Native American warriors under his control. They later reverted to normal humans, but still kept the appearance of Native Americans. Here the New Mutants fought and defeated the Demon Bear, disrupting him with Magik'sSoulsword. Danielle's parents leapt from his body, returning them to normal.[1]

The Demon Bear reappeared to battle Warpath, who was on his way to visit his brother's grave. Warpath fought the bear and would have been killed were it not for the intervention of Ghost Rider, who offered his assistance against the demon. They found out that it is actually the corrupted form of the Apaches' animal spirits, who had been driven mad by Eli Bard, who used a dagger full of black magic to do so.[4]

The Demon Bear later appears in possession of Bishop, before being driven out by Psylocke.[5] Once Bishop is freed, Psylocke takes on the now docile bear as a companion.[6]

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Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences

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Shapeshifting
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In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability of a being or creature to completely transform its physical form or shape. This is usually achieved through an inherent ability of a creature, divine intervention. The idea persisted through the Middle Ages, where the agency causing shapeshifting is usually a sorcerer or witch and it remains a common trope in modern fantasy, childrens literature, and works of popular culture. The most common form of shapeshifting myths is that of therianthropy, legends allow for transformations into plants and objects, and the assumption of another human countenance. Shapeshifting to the form of a wolf is known as lycanthropy. Therianthropy is the general term for human-animal shifts, but it is rarely used in that capacity. It was also common for deities to transform mortals into animals, other terms for shapeshifters include metamorph, the Navajo skin-walker, mimic, and therianthrope. The prefix were-, coming from the Old English word for man, is used to designate shapeshifters, despite its root. While the popular idea of a shapeshifter is of a human being who turns into something else, proteus was noted among the gods for his shapeshifting, both Menelaus and Aristaeus seized him to win information from him, and succeeded only because they held on during his various changes. Nereus told Heracles where to find the Apples of the Hesperides for the same reason, the Titan Metis, the first wife of Zeus and the mother of the goddess Athena, was believed to be able to change her appearance into anything she wanted. In one story, she was so proud, that her husband, Zeus and he then swallowed her because he feared that he and Metis would have a son who would be more powerful than Zeus himself. She stayed alive inside his head and built armor for her daughter, the banging of her metalworking made Zeus have a headache, so Hephaestus clove his head with an axe. Athena sprang from her fathers head, fully grown, and in battle armor, in Greek mythology, the transformation is often a punishment from the gods to humans who crossed them. Zeus transformed King Lycaon into a wolf as a punishment for either killing Zeus children or serving him the flesh of Lycaons own murdered son Nyctimus, Demeter transformed Ascalabus into a lizard for mocking her sorrow and thirst during her search for her daughter Persephone. She also turned King Lyncus into a lynx for trying to murder her prophet Triptolemus, Athena transformed Arachne into a spider for challenging her as a weaver and/or weaving a tapestry that insulted the gods. Artemis transformed Actaeon into a stag for spying on her bathing, io was a priestess of Hera in Argos, a nymph who was raped by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection. The young Tiresias was walking through a forest when he found two snakes in the act of love and he poked them with a stick and was instantly changed into a woman. He lived in this form for many years, and even married and had children

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American comic book
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An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing primarily comics content. While the form originated in 1933, American comic books first gained popularity after the 1938 publication of Action Comics and this was followed by a superhero boom that lasted until the end of World War II. After the war, while superheroes were marginalized, the book industry rapidly expanded, and genres such as horror, crime. The 1950s saw a decline, due to a shift away from print media in the wake of television. The late 1950s and the 1960s saw a revival. Since the later 20th century, comic books have gained note as collectable items, Comic shops cater to fans, and particularly valuable issues have fetched in excess of a million dollars. Systems of grading comic books have emerged with plastic sleeves and cardboard backing available to maintain the condition of comic books, standard comics are 6.625 inches ×10.25 inches and about 32 pages long. While comics can be the work of a creator, the labour of making them is frequently divided between a number of specialists. There may be a writer and artist, or there may be separate artists for the characters. The process begins with the coming up with an idea or concept, then working it into a plot and story. After the art production, letters are placed on the page, the creative team, the writers and artists, may work with a comic book publisher for help with marketing, advertising, and other logistics. A distributor like Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest in the U. S. helps to distribute the product to retailers. Another part of the involved in successful comics is the interaction between the readers/fans and the creator. Fan art and letters to the editor were printed in the back of the book until the early 21st century. Comic specialty stores did help encourage several waves of independently-produced comics, the development of the modern American comic book happened in stages. The G. W. Dillingham Company published the first known proto-comic-book magazine in the U. S, the Yellow Kid in McFaddens Flats, in 1897. The 196-page, square-bound, black-and-white publication, which also includes text by E. W. Townsend, measured 5×7 inches. The neologism comic book appears on the back cover, despite the publication of a series of related Hearst comics soon afterward, the first monthly proto-comic book, Embee Distributing Companys Comic Monthly, did not appear until 1922

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Comic book
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A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. Comic books are reliant on their organization and appearance, authors largely focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel positions. These characteristic aspects of books are necessary in conveying the content. The key elements of comic books include panels, balloons, text, balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction, there are many technological formulas used to create comic books, including directions, axes, data, and metrics. Following these key formatting procedures is the writing, drawing, Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover, making it the first known American prototype comic book. The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shusters Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, the Golden Age originated the archetype of the superhero. Historians generally divide the timeline of the American comic book into eras, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with the introduction of Superman in 1938, spurring a period of high sales. The Silver Age of comic books is considered to date from the first successful revival of the then-dormant superhero form. The demarcation between the Silver Age and the era, the Bronze Age of Comic Books, is less well-defined. The Modern Age of Comic Books runs from the mid-1980s to the present day, in response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Magazine Association of America. The CMAA instilled the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the self-censorship Comics Code that year and it was not until the 1970s that comic books could be published without passing through the inspection of the CMAA. In the early 1970s, a surge of creativity emerged in what known as underground comix. Published and distributed independently of the comics industry, most of such comics reflected the youth counterculture. Underground comics were almost never sold at newsstands, but rather in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, frank Stacks The Adventures of Jesus, published under the name Foolbert Sturgeon, has been credited as the first underground comic. The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created/paralleled a dedicated market for independent or alternative comics in the U. S, some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics. A few represented experimental attempts to bring closer to the status of fine art

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Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
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Magik is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most often in relation to the X-Men. She first appeared in the comic book Giant-Size X-Men #1, Magik is the younger sister of the Russian X-Man Colossus. She is a member of a fictional sub-species of humanity known as mutants and her natural mutant power is the ability to teleport. She also is a capable sorceress, Illyana first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1, though her first name was not given until Uncanny X-Men #145. For the first eight years of the existence, she was an infrequently appearing background character. These changes were not immediately explored or explained, and for the year she remained essentially a background character. In December 1983, the limited series Magik was launched, chronicling Illyanas years in Limbo, as the younger sister of Colossus and a member of the New Mutants, she also sporadically appeared as a guest star in Uncanny X-Men. In Uncanny X-Men #303, she dies of the Legacy Virus, other than flashbacks and alternate realities, she was absent from regular publication for most of the 1990s, though she does appear as a time-traveler in New Mutants, Truth or Death #1-3. After being resurrected by Belasco, she returned to publication in 2007, in New X-Men #38-41, X-Infernus #1-4, X-Men, Hellbound #1-3. As a member of Cyclops Extinction Team, she appears in Uncanny X-Men #1-20, Avengers vs. X-Men #1-12, AVX, Versus #3 and she appears in All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and Extraordinary X-Men as a regular character. Illyana Rasputin was born in the Ust-Ordynski Collective farm, near Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union to Nikolai Rasputin, Illyanas two older brothers, Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputin and Colossus are also mutants. Colossus superhuman powers manifest while saving Illyana from a runaway tractor, at six years old, Illyana is abducted and brought to the United States by Arcade, who uses her and several other hostages to coerce the X-Men into opposing Doctor Doom. She is rescued and brought back to the X-Mansion, shortly thereafter, Illyana is called to the Limbo dimension by Belasco, who seeks to bring forth the Elder Gods to rule Earth. She is raised there, frequently bullied and tormented by Belascos underling Sym, in order to free himself, Belasco needs to fill the Beatrix Medallion with five bloodstones. The bloodstones are created by corrupting Illyanas soul, with a new stone appearing as her corruption deepens and she is rescued and tutored in the practice of white magic by that dimensions version of Storm. Finding the use of magic abhorrent, Limbos version of Shadowcat, known as Cat, kidnaps and trains Illyana in hand to hand, Cat, along with Illyana, storms Belascos citadel. They are overwhelmed by Belasco who further transforms Cat into a demonic creature. With Illyana back under his control, Belasco instructs her in the art of magic in the hopes that it will further corrupt her soul

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Psylocke
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Psylocke is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Herb Trimpe in 1976, Psylockes codename, coined by the X-Men villains Mojo and Spiral, debuted during her introduction to the X-Men stories post–Captain Britain. Later, Psylocke acquired the power of telekinesis, many alternative versions of Psylocke have also appeared in several comics series of Marvel Multiverse, as well as in various other media and merchandise, notably in numerous video games. She briefly appeared in the 2006 film X-Men, The Last Stand, Olivia Munn portrays her in the 2016 film X-Men, Apocalypse. Created by writer Chris Claremont, Elizabeth Betsy Braddock first appeared in Captain Britain #8, the original spelling of the characters name was Elizabeth, though relettering of the UK versions for American reprints would occasionally misspell it as Elisabeth. This led to spelling inconsistencies throughout future publications, the inconsistency was resolved by Claremont 32 years later in 2008 in the series New Exiles, which reasserted the particular spelling of her name as Elizabeth. In the Captain Britain series, Claremont introduced her as a character, the sister of Brian Braddock, the eponymous Captain Britain. He also established that she had psychic abilities, the extent of which were unknown. In Marvel UKs Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain #243, Betsy Braddock is presented as a professional model, in Marvel UKs Daredevils #3, Alan Moore established that the character has begun to work for the fictional governmental organization S. T. R. I. K. E. Who are making use of her psychic abilities and her lover Tom Lennox is also a S. T. R. I. K. E operative and is later murdered. The story also presents the character as having dyed her hair purple after being originally blonde, in New Mutants Annual #2, Claremont integrated Braddock into the X-Men franchise. The story sees her abducted to the Mojoverse, where she is subjected to brainwashing, fitted with bionic eyes, after being rescued by the New Mutants, she takes up residence at their mutant-training academy, run by Magneto at the time in the absence of Professor Charles Xavier. After aiding the team unofficially, Braddock proves herself by distracting the attentions of the murderous supervillain Sabretooth, afterward, Braddock is formally invited to join the X-Men and officially adopts the codename Psylocke. Initially written as a telepath with few fighting skills, Psylocke later adopts body armor. In Uncanny X-Men #251, the X-Men flee from the terrorists, the Reavers, through the Siege Perilous. The now-amnesiac Braddock is taken in by the Hand, who brainwash, Braddock now believes herself to be Lady Mandarin, the Hands supreme assassin. With the launch of the volume of X-Men in 1991. In Jim Lee-written issues, the character becomes flirtatious with Cyclops, in 1994, writer Scott Lobdell set up a relationship between Braddock and her teammate Archangel

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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years

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Cannonball (comics)
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Cannonball is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Cannonball first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4, Cannonball is a mutant who uses the ability to fly at jet speeds while encased in an impenetrable force field. Several of his siblings are also mutants and have joined X-Men-related teams, including his sisters, Paige and Melody, other siblings include a brother named Lewis, and four more sisters, Joelle, Elizabeth, Cissie and another unnamed sister. Cannonball was a member of the X-Mens junior team The New Mutants. He joined The New Mutants later incarnation X-Force, serving as second-in-command and he joined the X-Men, becoming the first member of a secondary team to graduate. His tenure was complicated by clashes with superiors and he eventually rejoined X-Force, created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Cannonball first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4, The New Mutants. Cannonball briefly became a member of the X-Men team in the volume of the X-Men series. He is a member of the Avengers in the 2012 relaunch of the Avengers title, Sam Guthrie was born in Cumberland, Kentucky. As a young boy, he attempted to help out his family by working in the mine in which his father had worked before he died. One day, Sam finds himself trapped in a mine shaft. This incident leads Donald Pierce to find Sam and hire him as a mercenary for the Hellfire Club, however, when Pierce orders him to kill the defeated New Mutants, Sam rebels against him. Professor Charles Xavier sees the good qualities inside Sam and, after saving him from Pierce, Cannonball leaves his large farming family in Kentucky to join the team. As part of the New Mutants, Sam forms a friendship with his teammate, Sunspot. Sam develops an affection for Rahne, oblivious for some time that Rahne harbors romantic feelings for him. Sam and Danielle Moonstar act as the teams co-leaders and he also supervises other teammates, including Magik, Karma, Cypher, Magma, and Warlock. Early on in his career with the team, Cannonball visits Nova Roma and meets Magma, on whom he develops a long-standing, Sam also meets and shares his first kiss with the young mutant Firestar, then a student of the Massachusetts Academy. The machinations of the headmistress, Emma Frost, however, force them apart before they can develop their relationship. Cannonball later on saves the life of rock star Lila Cheney

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Cable (comics)
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Cable is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with X-Force and the X-Men. The characters first appearance was in The New Mutants #86 and he does not appear anywhere in the issues story, but the next issue teaser includes a small drawing of the character. This was followed by an appearance in The New Mutants #87. Though the artist Rob Liefeld is responsible for his design, name. Liefeld explains the creation of the character, Cable is first seen in conflict with Stryfes Mutant Liberation Front, the United States government, the New Mutants intervened and he asked for their help against the Mutant Liberation Front. Cable saw them as soldiers in his war against Stryfe. He became their new teacher and leader, and outfitted them and he came into conflict with Wolverine, noting that the two had an old feud between them. Cable and the New Mutants teamed up with Wolverine and Sunfire against the MLF, Cable also led the New Mutants against the Genoshans. With the aid of Domino, Cable reorganized the New Mutants into X-Force, the New Mutants ended with issue #100, with Cable and other characters then appearing the following month in X-Force #1. Cable traveled between the 1990s and his future with his ship Graymalkin, which contained a sentient computer program called Professor, the series explored Cable and the villain Stryfes ongoing battle with one another, and its effect on the people that surround Cable. Shortly after Blood and Metal, Cable was given his own ongoing series titled Cable, the series ran for 107 issues from May 1993 until September 2002 before being relaunched as Soldier X, which lasted 12 more issues until Aug.2003. The 1994 miniseries The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix provided further information on the back story. In the future, Mother Askani, a time-displaced Rachel Summers, pulled the minds of Scott and Jean into the future where, as Slym and Redd, they raised Cable for twelve years. During their time together, the family prevented Apocalypse from transferring his essence into a new body and it is furthermore established that Mister Sinister created Cyclops son Nathan to destroy Apocalypse. After his solo series ended, he was paired with the mercenary Deadpool in a new ongoing series titled Cable & Deadpool, the series largely dealt with Cables efforts to change the world for the better, including turning his old spaceship Greymalkin into the floating utopian island of Providence. He gains a level similar to his Nate Grey counterpart from The Age of Apocalypse reality. Using his powers at this also means that he will die due to the vast power being too much for his body to continuously maintain. He tries to carry out his plans quickly, defeating the X-Men, Six Pack and they turn the tide of the battle on Cable by enlisting the aid of the Silver Surfer

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Chris Claremont
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Christopher S. Claremont scripted many classic stories, including The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past, on which he collaborated with John Byrne. He developed the character of Wolverine into a fan favorite, X-Men #1, the 1991 spinoff series premiere that Claremont co-wrote with Jim Lee, remains the best-selling comic book of all time, according to Guinness World Records. In 2015, Claremont and his X-Men collaborator John Byrne were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, Claremont was born November 25,1950 in London, England, the son of an internist father and a pilot/caterer mother. His family moved to the United States when he was three, and he was raised primarily on Long Island and he read works by science fiction writers such as Robert Heinlein, as well as writers of other genres such as Rudyard Kipling and C. S. Forester. Claremont is Jewish on his mothers side, and lived in a kibbutz in Israel during his youth. Instead, when he began at Bard College, he did so as a political theorist, studying acting and political theory and his first professional sale was a prose story. Thomas later assigned Claremont his first professional scripting assignment, on Daredevil, in 1974, as an entry into regular comics writing, Claremont was given the fledgling title Iron Fist, which teamed him with John Byrne, their second collaboration after Marvel Premiere. Though his acting career did not yield great success, he functioned well at Marvel, one of the first new characters created by Claremont was Madrox the Multiple Man in Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4. Claremont approached the job as a actor, developing the characters by examining their motives, desires. This approach drew immediate positive reaction, according to former Marvel editor-in-chief Bob Harras, He lived it and breathed it. He would write whole paragraphs about what people were wearing and he really got into these peoples thoughts, hopes, dreams. Claremont introduced new supporting characters to the X-Men series including Moira MacTaggert in issue #96, Marvel Girl, one of Marvels first female heroes, underwent a huge transformation into the omnipotent Phoenix. Issue #107 saw the introduction of the Starjammers as well as the departure of artist Dave Cockrum, Claremont began his collaboration with artist John Byrne in the following issue. During his 17 years as X-Men writer, Claremont wrote or co-wrote many classic X-Men stories, such as The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past. Comics writers and historians Roy Thomas and Peter Sanderson observed that The Dark Phoenix Saga is to Claremont and Byrne what the Galactus Trilogy is to Stan Lee and it is a landmark in Marvel history, showcasing its creators work at the height of their abilities. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Claremont and Byrnes run on The X-Men second on its list of the Top 10 1970s Marvels, Claremont and artist Frank Miller crafted a Wolverine limited series in 1982. With artist Walt Simonson, Claremont produced The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans in 1982, the New Mutants were introduced by Claremont and Bob McLeod in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and received their own ongoing series soon after. The second X-Men film was based on his X-Men graphic novel God Loves

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Bishop (comics)
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Lucas Bishop is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, particularly titles associated with the X-Men. He first appears as a member of Xaviers Security Enforcers, a mutant police force from a future of the Marvel Universe. He travels to the 20th century and joins the X-Men, a team he knew only as legends, an example of 1990s anti-authority antiheroes, Bishop experiences difficulty adjusting to the norms of the time period. In the mid-2000s, Bishop took on a role over the course of several storylines. Bishop made frequent appearances in the X-Men animated series of the 1990s, Bishop is portrayed by Omar Sy in the 2014 film X-Men, Days of Future Past. Created by Whilce Portacio and John Byrne, the character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #282, Bishop had four limited series including the self-titled Bishop series, where he tracked and fought Mountjoy, XSE, which showcased his past, and its sequel - Bishop, Xaviers Security Enforcers. He also teamed up with Gambit to oppose Stryfe in Gambit and Bishop and he also starred in the series Bishop, The Last X-Man, in which he was trapped in another alternate timeline. He appeared regularly in District X, a police procedural set in a mutant ghetto in New York City and he was cast as a police officer in New York City’s mutant town, but the series was canceled after 14 issues. He also starred in the House of M tie-in, Mutopia, writer Sam Humphries revealed in an interview that Bishop would be back in our timeline and would be one of the first enemies of the new incarnation of Uncanny X-Force. He was raised in a mutant concentration camp in the aftermath of the Summers Rebellion, Bishop has a distinctive M brand over his right eye, used to identify mutants in his era. After his parents were killed, Bishop was taken in by a man named LeBeau, also called Witness, according to LeBeau, Bishops adoptive grandmother took Bishop away from him. Bishop and his sister, Shard, were then subsequently raised by his grandmother within the same mutant concentration camp in Brooklyn. Bishops grandmother taught him many legends of the X-Men, who were old allies of hers, depowered by unknown means, she had entered the camps in secret to raise her grandchildren. Upon her deathbed, she made Bishop swear to protect Shard, after the Rebellion, the mutants were emancipated and sent out of the camps to fend for themselves. Bishop and Shard, who were children, were left alone. They lived on the streets, stealing in order to survive until coming under the care of a family friend, slightly blind, Hancock nevertheless took on the task of raising the two. One day, Bishop encountered a group of mutants called the Exhumes. Until that time Bishop had admired the Exhumes, attributing to them his proud, Shard soon surpassed Bishop to become the youngest XSE officer

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New Mutants
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The New Mutants is a group of teenaged mutant superheroes-in-training appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They have been the characters of three successive comic book series, which were spin-offs of the X-Men franchise. The first team of New Mutants characters was created by Chris Claremont and they first appeared in 1982s Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and are subsequently featured in their own title from 1983 until 1991. With the end of the first series, the characters were relaunched as X-Force in a new, the second New Mutants series, launched in 2003, featured a new group of teenage mutants. Unlike the original New Mutants, they were part of a huge cast of students at the Xavier Institute, in 2004, it was relaunched as New X-Men, Academy X, after which the central group was formally dubbed the New Mutants. In the aftermath of the M-Day crossover storyline in late 2005, the students were merged into one junior team. The third New Mutants series, reuniting most of the team, was launched in May 2009. A New Mutants film was announced in May 2015, the first appearance of The New Mutants can be found in the Marvel Graphic Novel #4, from December 1982. X-Men editor Louise Simonson recalled Neither Chris or I really wanted to do it and we wanted X-Men to be special and by itself, but Shooter told us that if we didnt come up with a new mutant book, someone else would. The name was a modification of Stan Lees original name for the X-Men, the New Mutants were teenaged students of Professor Charles Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters, much like the original X-Men, who had since grown into adulthood. These students, however, rather resembled the All-New, All-Different X-Men in terms of ethnic diversity, the original team consisted of, Cannonball, a mild-mannered 16-year-old Kentuckian and eventual co-leader, who became nigh-invulnerable when rocketing through the air. Karma, a 19-year-old Vietnamese girl and the original leader. Mirage, a Cheyenne and eventual co-leader after Karmas death, who could create visual empathic three-dimensional illusions, Sunspot, a 14-year-old Brazilian billionaire who gained superhuman strength fueled by sunlight and could store solar energy in his body to use his super strength during the night. Wolfsbane, a 13-year-old religious Scot who could transform into a wolf-like creature, the team was intended to debut in their own series. However, as the first issue was nearing completion, Shooter ordered it to be reworked into a novel so that Marvel Graphic Novel could make its deadline for the next issue. Thus, the New Mutants debuted in Marvel Graphic Novel #4, the series was originally written by Claremont and illustrated by McLeod, the teams co-creators, but McLeod soon passed artistic duties on to Sal Buscema. Claremont gave the series a darker tone, which was heightened with the arrival of artist Bill Sienkiewicz, in addition to very serious depictions of teenage angst and growing pains, the series featured themes of mysticism and psychic boundaries. The stories also relied on wilder, more far-fetched premises than were typical of X-Men at the time, locales included demonic dimensions, alternate futures, and an ancient Roman civilization hidden within the Amazon rainforest